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a}. 4"». l f T" 7-1? ’dl W ' w‘u‘L‘L ih’c 1"me BM v.1: ' ysxeaers. at . on ‘ ,4, Sear, L4 ruined $l8,6w. “xx 0.03m: ranchmsn threw a lane clan:- r;y, and the noose fell arrmnd hisownneck. Just then the horse anaeated him, and, one feud either-pa beinglastto the saddle, he ' was choked to death. A siu. collector returned to Memphis on humback, with a bag full of gold and silver can. The horse ran an , the bag hunt, and a gust crowd follow in; up the money, none of which has been recovered. Tn: English Bank of S n Francisco, with a capital of three midi ms, has returned one million of dollars to its shareholders. The great lal'ing of! in businin does not afford prqfitable employment for their former cap. its . Two and a half millions of tropical or- anges were received in the past six months at flan Francisco from the French islands of Tahiti. They have come in equal numbers evexy month from Mircli to September, showing that the trc s are in perpetual bearing. Busira B1,”, J s., who lately died at Hartford, Conn.. made a fortune by discov- ering the fun of Mark Twain's ” Innocents Abroad” while the work was in manu- script. Twain had tried in vain to secure a publisher, and was about to throw the mat- ter aside in des air, when a 'ournalist friend sent him to ’lisa, who was President of a subscription biok company. Bisuor Eunio Cost, at Chang-Tong, in China, has invented an alphabet cf 33 let- ters, by means of which all the sounds of the Chinese language cin, it is said, he repre- sented. The Emperor of Austria hasbeen so well pleased With the invention that be has presented the Bishop with a complete typographical apparatus, so that the new alphabet may lie cmplo ed in printing. The charact~rs used by t e Chiucse number 30,000. ~‘::,,,,‘$xu}_flmltffl.‘t DlLKI, Under Seerctary “Ki. Torcign Affairs in England, has a pretty Provencal home to which he always retires when the session is over. There he receives little or no company, keeps regular hours, is a strict tcttotalcr, and divides his time between grapes an i gardening. His grapes have won medals, and some cxccllcnt Wine has been made on the estate, though the lord thereof iievcr tastes of it. He has been employed for the last six years or so on a history of Europe during the n’netcenth century, a book Very much wanted if only the author will limit himself to twenty octa- vos at the most. A LONDON undertaker, has, within the last few weeks, driven through the city as an advertisement, an enormous coffin, mounted on a base and drawn by five horses. The final receptacle is got up in the most gaudy colours, ornamented With the name and address of the purveyor on the outside, and lined within with satin, or some other comfortable and pleasant-looking ma torial. A live corpse, with a sheet about him, dil duty in the luxurious tenement, just to let the public see what a fine time one would havc of it who should be lucky enough to obtain possession of the lodgmcnt in perpetuity. AN English physician stationed in Formo‘ sa, says: “The Chinese, make, on the whole, very good patients. Occasionally some of them try our patience not a little. Ono takes is four days‘ supply of medicine away with him, the recipe bearing on it, ‘ a -. ‘oonful three times dolly after oach meni.‘ c comes back next morning {or room, thinkin tollattor you by stating that he drank t o former quantity at one dose. An- other has his arm carefully put up in splints, and on his next visit he brings his dressings in a separate parcel. They are great believers in internal administration, and, although he have only a finger cut, it is diflicult for a China'iian to See why he should not got some medicine to ‘ cat.’ ” Bur, children, you should never let your angry passions rise; your little hands were never made to tour each other's eyes. The foregoing is not original, having bcen penned some years ago by a good man, who delight- cd not in juvenile combats. The words should have been‘ impressed on certain children in llonesdalc, I’a. A girl and two buys, a cd res actively, 0, 7 and Gyenrs, assaulted a gir of S, and literally their “little hands" tore out the eyes of Aggie Myers, the girl rufcrrod to. Besides losing her eyesight, the poor girl has also lost her hearin , through the iicndishncss of the youth ul rullins. The a greasivo three wze tried the other day an acquitted. If Dr. “'atts' verse had been thoroughly impress- ed on them with a rod. such as Solomon recommended, it would seem more like jus- tics. Tina lines of railway in the five divisions of the rartli cost, in round numbers, $16,- 000,000,000, and would, according to Baron Kolb, roach eight times round the globe, al- though it is but litth over half a century since the first railway worked by steam was opened between Burlington and Stockton, Sept. 27, 1825, and betwcrn Manchestcraud Liverpool, Sept. [5, 1830. It is shown that in France, previous to the existence of rail- way, there was one passenger in every 835,- 000 killed, and one out of every 30,000 wounded, whereas bemoan 1835 and 1875 there was but one in 5,177,899 killed, and one in 580,450 wounded. so that we may infer that the tendency to accidents is 'car- ly diminishin . Railway travelling in Ing- land is atten ed with greater risk than in any other country in Europe. A French statistician observas that if a person were to live continually in a railway carriage and a nd all his time in railway travelling. the c anccs in favour of his dying from a rail- way accident would not occur until he was 960 years old. It was said of those whom Mohammed converted at the swords point that they be- came more zealous for their new faith than thou who held ittroru the first. The same paradox runs through the whole history of the Albanian Mosleui, who, originally forced tochooso between Islam and death, have long been stauncber champions of Islam than the Turks themselves. Kbeder Ali, the Governor of Bosnia, sprun from a Christian family. was the most anions of the man Albanians who fell lightin against the c of their ancestors durin t c siege of Malta, The Albanians who eld Acre against Napoleon, in 1798, undoubtedly aavrd Turks from extinction. Moreover, Turkey has a quite as well served by the non-Modem Albanians in one way, as by their Museulmau brethren in another. By permitting Catholic missionaries to prosely- an the border clans, while keeping those of the interior true to the faith of Islam, the Forte has attained its object of dividing these formidable puurillaa so completely, that their hatred 0 each other is even great. «than the common enmity to the foreigner. Even at this day any combined movement of the two millions that people Albania is vir- mallyimpoaaible. Tax Presbyterian congregation at Brus- uls, Ohio, made up a purse of $100 for their purer, the Rev. Mr. Cunningham, to meet the expruaca of his vaccines. The reverend “demon decidde spend the time and in St. Lucie, where an industrial fairn’nsin roast llahadnotbeenia that city an r before he met an ad’sble man, who knew all about bim.aud mks at Brunei-r. ands-ho brought him Marconwbsreagameofchamwasgoing . The manager permitted the clergyman :dnw several times without cba and {uninformed him that than was \1 for a mile, pitk- E l l l g ___-,. VOL. VIII. i i i _-___-- I woua1v__ cossxr. A Bridal Greeting. (in thy bridal morning Skies are bloc and bright; With how street rn aspect Day has followed night 2 O 1 than eutle maiden, With t e amber hair, Be thy future bright and pleasant As this mom is fair. Fashion Notes. Burma's are more wildly extravagant than ever. Barn square and round trains are worn in evening toilet. FASCY leathers show the influence of the craze for plaided effects. Soars Very small bonnets appear among late novelties in millinery. Tux "Abbe" is the new list worn by la- dies returned from abroad. A 'riuaiaua'o much in vogue is black net embroidered with jet bends. Dssr locks on dresses are a recent revival of a fashion of ye olden time. FRENCH mediates add flowers as accesso. riea to all but the simplest dresses. PLUSH roses form the favourite garnitures of many lovely evening dresses. Inisu point and church lace form the most fashionable mull neck scarfs. BLACK dresses rtill hold their own and are as elegant and fashionable as ever. Arms. the rage for big bonuets has sub- sided, tho medium sizes will probably be most worn. Boxmrrs, muffs and costumes match when worn by the most fastidioust fashionable women. JET or coloured crystal beads curicli all the richest trirnmings'uud cmbroideries on dressy costumes. Wall’s. A GOOD soldieris an easy catch. ways ready for an engagement. Tm; spots on the sun do not begin to cre- ate the disturbance produced by the freckles on the daughter. Wus.’ a man and a woman are made one, tho question “ \Vhich one is abothcrsomc one until it is settled, as it soon is. A LADY assistant in a glove shop was al- most mad when a. fellow asked her if she had any nice darkwolourcd kids. W'mzx does a budding young damsel burst into fruit 2â€"When she becomes the ap- ple of somebody's eye. He is al- Soam crusty, rusty, fusty, musty, dusty, gusty curmudgeon of a man gave the follow~ mg toast at a celebration zâ€"“Our fire-cu- ginesâ€"may they be like our old maids ever ready, but never wanted l” “ I can"? END Boom." nlady' 1's feport- ed to have said; “I am reading forty-five continued stories, and my limited means would not let me pay the postage.” “'mzx old Mrs. Piuaphor heard thata cer- tnin young lady had “ gone to Europe to catch a husband,” she innocently observed : " \Vhy, is there no one in this country who will have the girl 3” Tm: faculty of an Ohio female seminary has issued orders that no pupil shall have more than one rsnlo visitor per week. The smart girls invite their young men to call on Sunday, so that when their fathers come on Monday the old men find themselves barred out. A vousc man with an umbrella overtook an unprotected lady acquaintance in a rain- storm, and, extending his umbrella. over her, requested the pleasure of acting as her rain- bow. “ Oh l" exclaimed the young lady, takin his arm, “ you wish me to be our rsin- ear." Two souls with but a. single umbrella, two forms that stopped as one. Poetry of the Table Moro appetizing than all patent tonics is a perfectly arranged table, sparkling with cleanliness. So let us be a little extravagant in our fresh tablecloths, when soup, water, and a little labour are all we have had to r-ny. And now we must decide, shall we have the best china and do with some stone- ware for every day? Or shall we ay our- selves tho respect usually reserved or com- pany? Clearly, we are the persons to whom it is of the most importance. Shall we sit down to odd plates and cracked saucers six days, that we may enjoy gilded china on the seventh? By no means. We will have lain white French china, which can always be matched when broken, and we will sit down to it every day. In the same way we will bring out the plated knives and silver forks, an partake of our food with a sense of our own deserts. We shall feel increased respect for ourselves, also, with napkins and butter plates ; so those we will have. A Romantic Match. A Boston bookseller tells a very romantic story as follows : At one time I had prepar- cd boxes of fancy paper with a fancy initial' or pet name embossed in it, and I put this up at $1 a box, and advertised it widely One day I had an order from California, from a Miss Susicâ€". The box was done a , addressed to her, and lay about here, w an a young Englishman came in and wanted to write a letter. I gave him the materials and a place, when his eye caught the address on t is box. ,“ Have you the order that came for that box of paper? ' he asked. “ Yea,‘ I replied, “it is about some. where." "Would you mind sendiu it ii to my ho- tel f If it is what I think, {shall leave for California tonight." I found it and sent it around, and heard no more about it for perhaps three months, when one day the young man, with a lady on his arm, walked in. " I want to present you to my wife," he said. " We could not leave this country till we had thanked on for your part in bringing us together." he denouement was quite a romance. The young man was the son of an aristocratic fa- mily,and the 'rl thedangbtcr of the garden. er. Bat lore evcls all distinctions, and the young man felt this girl to be the chosen companion of his life. To break of? the at- tachment his father had sent him to the con- tincnt, and dispatched the gardener and his pretty dau htrr to America, where the young man ad allowed them, ignorant of their address, and at last finding it through the chance of the heir of paper. A Girl blank Mstrena Ivanovna, a Russian peasant girLof two-and-tvrcnty, has recently acquired considerable notoriety in her native land, say-s Thom Trhyroph, through the fact that. under the monastic designation of " Father Midas: " she succeeded in passing m, several months in the cloiater of Staraja La~ dogs, without incurring the least suspicion on the part of her fellow~inonks that she was other thanaheaeemedtobe. Forced byber son whom she detected. wedding, a u scare being her clothes and two it; plaita of ber"back hair‘were found nearlbc Welehotl'rivur, as well as a letter in her FENELON FALLS, ONTARIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1880. handwriting, stating that, rather than live with her husband, she had resolved to drown herself. Her relatives, believing that she had really committed suicide, forbore any further inquiry, and mourned for her as one dead. She, however. dressed in man's clothing, applied last March for admission to the above-named monastery, and was da- ly received into the conlraternit‘y on proba- tion, taking the minor miss, an officiating as coachman to the prior. There is no knowing to what ecclesiastical dignifies she might not in time have risen, had not on- kind fortune decreed that a native of her own village should have been sent to Straja Ladoja by his master for correction at the hands of the brethren, his offense being in- veterate drunkenness. Promptly recognized and denounced by this indiscreet taper as Matrena Ivanovna, a friend of his youth, “ Father Michael" was handed over to the police authorities by the indignant monks, and is now awaiting trial for imposture upon a religious communityâ€"a crime likely to be visited with severe punishment in so priest- ridden a country as Russia. Small Feet. An American missionary, Miss Norwood, of Swatow, has lately described how the size of the foot is reduced in Chinese women. The binding of the feet is not begun till the child has learned to walk and do various things. The bandages are specially manu- factured. and are about two inches wide and two yards-long for the first year, and five yards long for subsequent years. The end of the strip is laid on the inside of the foot at the instep, then carried over the toes, un- der the foot, and round the heel, the toes being thus drawn toward and over the sole, while a bulge is produced on the instep, and a deep indentation in the solo. The inden- tation, it is considered, should measure about an inch and a half from the part of the foot. that rests on the ground up to the in_- step. Successive layers of bandages are put on till the strip is all used, and the end is then sown tightly to the ground. Large quantities of powdered alum are used to prevent ulceration, and lessen the offensive odour. After a month the foot is put in hot water to soak some time ; then the bandage is carefully unwonnd, much dead cuticle coming off with it. Ulcers and other acres are often found on the foot. Frequently, too, a large piece of flesh sloughs 03 the soles, and one or two toes may even dro off, in which case the woman feels afterwar repaid by having smaller and more delicate feet. Each time the bandage is taken off the feet are kneaded, to make the joints more flexible, and are then bound up again as quickly as possible with a fresh bandage, which is drawn up more tightly. During the first year the pain is so intense that the vic- tim can do nothing, and for about; two years the foot aches continually, and is the seat of a pain which is like the pricking of sharp nem‘i'es.‘ W1 continued rigorous binding, the foot in to. years becomes dead, and ceases to ache, in? the whole leg, from the knee downward, bec mes shrunk, so as to be little more than skin and bone. il'i'mnmv‘a formed, the “golden lily,” as the Chinese lady calls her delicate little foot, can never recover its original shape. How 9. Married Woman Goesto Sleep. There is an article going the rounds enti- tlcd ” How Girls Go to Sleep." The man- ner in which they go to sleep, according to the article, can't hold a. candle to the way a married woman ocs to sleep. Instead of thinking what a a would have attended. to before going to bed, she thinks of it after- ward. While she is revolving these mat- ters in her mind, and while snugly tucked up in bed, the old man is scratching his legs in front of the fire, and wondering how he will pay the next month's rent. Suddenly she says : “ James, did you lock the door 3" “ \Vhich door ‘2" says Jim. “ The collar door,"slie says. "No," says James. “ \Vell, you had better go down and lock it, forI heard some person in the back-yard last night." Accordingly Jim paddles down stairs and locks the door. About the time James re- turns nnd is going to get into bed, she re- marks : ,, “ Did you shut the stair door 2" “ No," said James. “ “'ell, if it isn’t shut the cat will get up into the bedroom." “ Let her come up, therfipays James, ill- naturcdly. “My goodness, no," returned the wife. " She’d suck the baby's breath." Then James paddles down stairs again, and stops on a tack and closes the stair door, and curses the cat and returns to the bedroom. Just as he begins to climb into his couch his wife observes : " I for at to bring up some water. pose you ring up some in the big tin." And so James with amuttercd curse goes down into the dark kitchen and falls over a chair, and rakes all the tinware off the wall in search of the “big” tin, and then jerks the stair door open and bowls : “ \Vhere the deuce arc the matches 2" She gives him minute instructions where to find the matches, and adds that she would rather go and get the water herself than have the neighbourhood raised aboritit. After which James finds the matches, pro- cures the water, comes up stairs, and re- pai-cs himself to retire. Before accomp ' h- ing this feat the wife suddenly remembers that she in ct to chain the dog. A trip to the kennel ollows, and he once more jumps into bed. Presently his wife says : "James, let's have an understanding about money matters. Now next week, I've got to payâ€"" “ I don't know what you‘ll have to pay, and I don't care," shouts James, as he lurcbcs around and jams his face against the wall ; “ all I want now is slccp.” " That's all very well for you." snaps his wife, as she pulls the covers viciously; "you gover think of the worry and trouble I ave." Sup~ A Mlxed Telephone. The telephone, the wonderful offspring of Edison's great mind, is an instrument which is now looked upon as indispensable to the world's good, but it, like a great many other things, will sometimes get out of humorand act in a very crooked manner. . Mr. Charles Augustus Fitment is an en- terprising but bashful l{slung clerk, whose place of business is on ' g street, and be is most warmly attached to a fair maiden who lives in an upitown maidens» with a tele- phone in it. 0ft the telephone has been used as a medium through which be has breathed words of heart- undinglove in the ears of the one he so fou ly worshipped, and never did he know it to fail in the perfum- ancs of its duty until yesterday. when it caused him to moanâ€"yea, to tremble like an aspen leaf. and smite one knee against the ct‘er. At I‘tbe gin mentionedf Charles had not seen iaa ‘tyforover o - ' ht boars, and be determined to inforz’ II:- of whom he was fondly dreaming that he would be up tothohousetbatnightand sit out on the front porch withherandsighatthe moon. Seeking the tele while no one was in the 05cc, be aai : “ Ia Miss Minnie at home 2" ‘.‘Yes." "Tell her to step to the ’phone, please." “Is that you, Charlie 1’" inquired a cooing voice skimming along the wire. “ Yes, dearest, it is your own Charles.” “ Oh, Charlie. what made you stay away so long? You must come up to-night be- causeâ€"" “ The baby was born an hour ago." "\Vh-at bub t" “ Your own aby.” “ My baby i" shrieked the young woman, “why, I’mâ€"I'm 'aurprised that youâ€"you would say such a thing. [â€"1 didn’t expect it_l, “Neither did I ;I just heard it a moment ago- I) “ You don’t believe thisâ€"this fearful re- ort ‘! Sayâ€"say you don't. You know I vcn't ot a baby. I never did have sbsby in my li e," howled the young woman in a frenzy. “ Ha ! ha 1 old fellow, you feel so proud and happy that you have to indulge in a joke, do you? Allow me to congratulate you. It's a boy, and weighs twelve pounds. Goodbye.” “Miss Banterâ€"I say, Miss Banter " “ Ob, Charlie 1 what is the matter 2" " Matter enough. I want to know the man’s name who told you that scandalous falsehood. I'll have his gore before sunrise. I’ll follow him over sixteen different states to kill him. I’ll crush him. I’ll mutilate him. Tell me, was it that squint-eyed Bangs who brought that horrible lie to your ears 2” “W'hat lie, Charlie? mean 2" “ I want to know who told you that-- that I had a baby born to ms an hour ago that weighed twelve pounds. “'ho is the villain 2" A piercing shriek was the only reply that came over the wire, and then Charles rea- lized for the first time that there was some dreadful mistake, that the telephone had be- come mixed, and he fainted. - -â€"â€"__‘ The Excavation of Flood Rock, Hell Gate. The mining of Flood Rock, Hell Gate, in the East River at: the northerly part of New York city, preparatory to blowing it up after the manner of the Hallott’s Point work, is being pushed forward rapidly. The expenditure last year amounted to $140,- 000, and a large part of the $200,000 ap- Eropriated this year for the improvement of ant River will go to this work. Employ- ment is now given to ~135 men, divided into three shifts of eight hours each. The central shaft is fifty feet deep. Running across the river are twenty head- ings; at right angles to these are eleven cross headings, none of which have yet been extended their entire length. They average seven feet high and ten feet wide, and are situated about twenty feet apart. N ear the main shaft, however, where more light and space are required for working, they are largest». Three acres have thus been under- mined, or aireme or the archaic, .Jtis not intended to enlarge the headings until each one has been carried out to its full length. Then the chambers will be widened and made higher, so that the whole excavation will resemble an immense cave, the roof being supported by the rock pillars which now form the sides of the headings. The thickness of the rock forming the roof will then be about ten feet, varying according to the character of the rock, whereas it is now from fifteen to thirty feet in thickness. The was; of tunneling proceeds very slowly, owing to the hardness of the rock of which the reef is composed. The rate at which it is now going on is from 500 to 600 feet a month, representing an excavation of {about 1,500 cubic yards. It is impossible to tell when the whole will be accomplished, even at this rate. Frequently a seam is struck in blasting which stops the work in that heading altogether, on account of the leakage. In such a case it is customary to work around the leak. According to the last report, the work done during the past year was much greater than in any prevrous year; 24,000 cubic yards of rock were re~ moved, 43,000 blasts made, and 57,066 drills sharpened. The number of blasts made each night now average 150. The rock thus broken up is loaded on scows and dumped in the deep water to the south of the reef. Part of it was also used to fill up the space between Big and Little Mill Rocks, which lie to the north. “'hat do you A Famous Paris Wit. The famous Romieu was one day caught in a shower, and forced to seek refuge in a doorway of the opera house. It was 6 o’clock already and he had an engagement at the Cafe a Paris for that very hour. The rain fell in torrents. There was no carriage to be had. He had no um- brella. ’What was to be done? While he was cursing his bad lack, a gen- tleman with a large umbrella passed by. Romicn Was seized with a sudden inspira- tion. Ho rushed out and grasped the stran or by the arm, and gravely installed himse f under the protecting umbrella. “ I am overjoyed to see you," he immedi- ately began. “ I have been looking for you for two weeks. I wanted to tell you about Clementine." W'ithont giving the stranger time to ex- press his surprise, Romieu rattled away with gossip and anecdote until he had led his unknown companion to the door of the Cafe de aria. Then c glanced at him with a face full of well-feigned astonishment : “ Pardon, monsieur,” he cried, "it socms I am mistaken." “ I believe so," said the stranger. “ The devil i" added Romieu, “ be dis- creet ; don't repeat what I’ve told you." " I promise you." “ A thousand pardons.” Romieu hastens within the cafe and tells the adventure to his friends, amid great laughter. Suddenly one of them says : “ Your crsvat is rumpled." . Romieu puts his hand to his neck and turns pale. Ilia pin, a valuable sapphire, is gone. A further examinationâ€"and his purse and watch are gone. The man with the umbrella was a pick- pocket. The friends laugh again, but ltomieu deesn't join them. , Brrwxsx Bri ton and Worthing, in Eng- land, 'tbere is ' erected a large Cartha- sian mo , to dedicated to St. Hugh, an offshoot of the menu of the Grand Chartreuse in the mountains of Dauphine. The estate is about 350 acres, of which 15 areeoveiod with buildings. 'Hie building is nearl as large as the t house. The cool arcaistobelaidoutwithgardens and fountains, and a tower and spire of enormous heir; twill rise above the south. ern gates. The chapel is to be of atbedral- like dimensions. The library, the refectory, andthecha terbonse wfllbe onagrand sale. Eacther have a bed- room, two rooms, an a separate - den. Yishponds, a ' and a like are being constructed, and the nucleus of a good library'is being formed. The money from the sale of the famous Chart. reuse liqueur. I The Island of Madeira. . One of the principal drawbacksto Madeira is the difficulty of getting about. Thereare no carriage roads, and the horse tracks are steep pitches up and down; they ero also almost invariably paved with hard pebbles. This renders it impossible to ride anywhere except at a foot's pace, so that the time con- sumed in going a few miles is very great, and the mode of progression verv tiresome. On the other hand, the islan’ d ponies, shod in a peculiar manner to encounter the afore- said roads, are usually sure-footed and good walkers, so that within a certain distance of Fuucbal pleasant o 'tions are to be made if you find the time and strength. Thus the fine mountain scenery of the Grand Corralâ€" : gloomy gorge, into which you look down some 2,000 feet or so from the mountains overhanging itâ€"the Ribiero Frio, and other landscapes beautiful of their kind, can on well-chosen days he visited without much difficulty. To get further afield is not so easy. There are but few tolerable hotels in the country districts, and you never can be sure that you will not find the higher levels wrapped in mist or drenched with rain, even whilst fine weather is, prevailing. I am speaking of the winter months ; anybody who happened to pass a summer in Madeira could vrsit all parts of the island readily enough. The remark that there are few comfortable inns out of Funcbnl does not a ply to Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz in Madeira, Imean). The hotel there belongs to a Senhor Gonzalez, but is mainly upheld by the untiring exer- tions of a worthy woman called Maria. She is a Portuguese by birth, but speaks Eng- lish quite well, and is indefatigable in her efforts to please. This quiet inn is a plea- sant change from the hot tables d'hotes at Funchal ; the village may be perhaps some- what cooler, and is said to possess a lighter and finer air; it is also well situated as a place to make excursions from. A mile or two beyond it lies the wsll‘known Mucbiclio Bay, where, according to the tradition, Ma- deira was first landed upon by the English‘ man Machin. The story is that this Ma- chiu, an English csquirc, incurred the re- scntmcnt of a powerful family by gaining the affections of the daughter of its chief. He was {thrown into prison, but; escaped, and then persuaded the lady to slope with him to France, A violent storm drove their vessel for thirteen days in a southerly direc- tion, and at last they found themselves in a small bri on the shores of an unknown is- land. cre they landed, but the fatigues of the voyage had exhausted the strength of Mnchiu's companion, Anna d’Arfet ; she died there, and was there buried. Tho frag- ments of a cross erected over her grave are still shown by the Mncliico villagers. Her lover did not long survive her, and his com- panions, in their attempt to sail away home, fell into the hands of the Moors. During their on tivity they spoke of this island to an old ’ortuguese pilot, who, on being run- somed, and returning to his own country, suggested and accompanied the first expedi- tion to Madeira. which thus became a dc- pendency of Portugal. Skepticism, of course, has been at work upon this old national tale, but'irl‘crs‘cerms no reason for rejecting the legend, except that! if. is a legend, and that the fashionable wisdom of the hour pro- nounces, as usual, anything which has rlmig been a matter of popular belief to be of ne- cessity incredible; otherwise the narrative hangs perfectly well together in all its parts, and, moreover, furnishes a reason why the Portuguese government sent out their expedition a little later to discover the island so reported to themâ€"a reason which otherwise would be wanting. Beyond this buy you can proceed in a. bout, along ano- ther range of rugged and lofty hills, to the supposed fossil beds at the extremity of the island : those fossils are apparently concre- tions of lime, which have put on the appear- ance of branches or roots, as the case may be. An ignorant person would believe that they had formed themselves round ' real pieces of wood, and that these have decay- ed, leaving their form to the encompassinB stone ; but geologists, I fancy, put this opinion aside, and look upon them as being what they are, merely in obedience to some caprice of nature ; they are not, according to them, fossils at all, but merely a good mitation of fossils. ~Qe4 Overdue Railway Tickets. An important question will be settled by law before very long. It has been asked over andovcragainwhatrightanyrailwaycompany has to dictate at what time ntraveller should use the ticket he buys. As well, it is thought allow the grocer to dictate to his customer within what dates he must finish a certain pound of sugar, The company takes money and agrees to carry a passenger to a certain destination. As long as the ticket remains uncancclled, the question is, has that trav- eller not a perfect right to use that ticket whenever he chooses. A case in point has occurred this week. A gentleman bought a. return ticket to Toronto on the 10th of September, which was considered “good” till the 20th. Ho was one of the judges at the exhibition. While here, he was rsuadcd to go on to Hamilton, to per~ arm the same duty there, and then, on again to London. He bought return tickets over the Great Western. which were all honoured, but when he offered his ticket to the conductor on the Grand Trunk,it was re~ fused, and money was demanded on pain of cjectment from the train. The gentleman refused to pay. and accordingly was put off at Scarborough. It is understood that an action for damages, is to be the result of this afl'air, and itrwill no doubt be watched with great interest, as the matter is one of no small importance. Diamond Cutting in New York. Among the curious and interesting indus- trial facts brou t to light during the census inquiries, not t e least is the factthat the re- cently introduced art of diamond cutting has been so admirably developed here that dia- monds cut in Amsterdam are sent to this city for rccutting. Hitherto Amsterdam has mono lizcd the work of diamond cutting; and tli): aim there has been to remove in cut- ting the lcast possible weight of the gem. The American plan is to cut mathemati- cally, according to izcd laws of li ht, so as to secure the utmost lirilliancy for t to fin. ished stone. The greater loss in weight, as compared with the Amsterdam cutting, is thus more than made good by the superior- hrilliancy of the roduct. From the in: air. in made by chi special census agent, Chas. E. llill, it uppcant at the average increasing value given to diamonds by New York cut» ting is $5,000 for each person employed for twelve in nths ; also, that our dealers are re- ceivin e best Amsterdam-cut gems from ab to be recut here and returned. ”~â€".â€"â€"_ Tnznx are several hundred physicians in this country and Europe practising under diplomas granted by the New En land Uni- versity of Arts and Sciences. T ese docu- ments are dated at Boston, bat the institu- tioomwas lthere, and the police con not itat . A mspaoermportcv, however, discovered it in the suburban resi- dence of Dr. Harry C. Stickney. It consist. ed simply of a stock of blank diplomas, handsome! engraved, which Sticknry filled entandso forslmostany pricothatsnap- pheant would pay. PERSONAL. Tn: widow of the Field)“ M...â€" uman natn'rc. Loan Rsxnou'n Cnuxcrnu. looks ex- tremely youthful in Parliament, as be lounges in evening dress on the front bench below the gs y. His up cc is not 4 attractive, an he speaks Wig a bad drawl. Tm: Emperor of German '. at the close of ’ the war, presented Bismaro with one of the finest woodland properties in all Europe- the estate of l-‘ricdricbsruhe, noted for its vast forests, full of red deer, wild bear, and game of all sorts. Tun anonymous aecmsto he the proper thing just now. The Prince and Princesa Christian have been travelling in tho Eng» dine as the Count and Countess Grnfcnstein, and the Queen of the Belgians, visiting Aix- lia-Chapellc, styles herself Countess dos Ar- canes. Tris Minister in attendance at Balmoral is sometimes invited to dine with the Queen, but ordinarily orders up his own dinner from the royal menu, although he can, if he lease, dine with the Lord and Groom in \‘aiting. He is obliged to be in full dress nearly all the time, and he can drive or walk out but for a very short distance. MR. BRADLAL’GII is attacking the English rpetual pension list. He finds that tho secscendants of Lord St. Vincent have with in a century received a million dollars, and so have those of Lord Rodney; four thousand dollars a year are still paid to the re rcscn- tativc of Sir Thomas Clargos, near y two millions have been mid to the Dukes of Wellington, and the uko of Marlboroth is in receipt of the perpetual pension of twenty thousand dollars a year. Tits Duchess of Connaught,the hereditary Princess of Saxc-Meiuingen, and innumera- ble other grand ladies, are great admirers of Joseph Mayer, the Christ at Obcrammo an. He is over six feet, has dark eyes, and nag dark hair curling on his shoulders. Ho lots rooms, and his good wife keeps a sharp look- out on his visitors. The Judas of the Pa:- sion Play is an old wood~carvcr, and so is Peter: Pilate eddies portnisntcaus, and Caiaphas is the liurgomastor. Ms. J 0er RUSSELL Yovxo has man sym- pathizcrs in the loss of his last chi d. A few years ago be buried his little daughter Maurie, a. child of seven, but already the friend cf countless of her country people who had met her while in Paris. She was a per- fectly beautiful dark-eyed and dark-trosscd little creature, combinin v in liorsclf all the nrtlcss innocence of a chi d with all the gra~ cious courtesy of a marquiso of the old regime. Her mother once took her to some Austrian.batlis, \vhorc, shortly afterward, the Empress arrived with her court. The Empress was at once attracted by the charming child, sent for Mrs. Young (who found herself installed as a person of honour in the most rigid Court of Europe), and would not bathe at all without little Mamie as an amused attendant at the scene of all the lords and ladies in the water to their shoulders, but above the shoulders wearin their plumes, point-lace, and diamonds, an paying her a court which she received as a matter of course. The child had extraordi- nary intelligence. and was perhaps as widely mourned as any child that ever died. NO. 34. ART AND DRAMATIC NOTES. An gains“. (horn the Elmira Telegram.) I want to be a minister, And with them take my stand : Then in the heated summer months I‘d roam all o’er this land. I'd like totravel for half fareâ€" The ministers all do ; I'd like to lay 08 for three monthsâ€" And draw my salary, too ! So would we, but we can't. Muss. Ds LA RAMBR (Ouida) threatens M. Laboucherc, the editor of Truth, with a lawsuit, for having described her unpleas- ingly. MISS BRADDON (Mrs. Maxwell) bad a stepson married lately, with much ceremony, to Miss lVyndhsm, the daughter of a former lessee of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh. anovsx‘s piano is for sale at Klauscn- burg, Transylvania, if it has not been already sold. It was given to the musician at the time of the composition of Fidelio, by its maker. It is quite richly ornamented, and one of its panels bears the portrait of tho great artist as he looked at twenty. Mus. Arms. FIELDS, who is about to pub- lish her first book, other writings of hers having been “printed, not published,” is a woman of great benevolence and much strength of character. She was married at the age of seventeen, and taken abroad, visiting Tennyson, the Brownings, and others, and shaping her still expanding nature by companionship with the beat that England and Italy could offer. The artists in Rome used to call her “ La Bella Donna " â€"and very aptly, for with but fair skin and its rich colour, her irresistible smile, her great brown eyes, and her Wealth of dark brown hair, full of ruddy and golden lights and shadows, she was then, and is still, an exceedingly beautiful woman. A PASSION play, entitled “The Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” was lately produced in Havana by a Spanish theatrical company. Leopoldo Bur-on, an actor of considerable ability, pcrsonated Christ. The piece was largely spectacular, the tableaux of Christ blessing little child- ren, the entry into Jerusalem, the betrayal, the last supper, and the crucifixion being highly artistic. The prayer of Christ on the mountain was introduced with mechanical effects, an angel descending with a silver chalice, and. outing away after he had drunk. Ida Williams, describing the play in a letter to the Fishlrill Standard, says: “ Then was to follow the crucifixion. I had been wrought up to a religious frenzy. The man whom I had seen scour-god had become divine in my eyes. Our box commanded a â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"¢_. perfect view of the stage, and from the ad- . ,. - joining ante-room we could see behind the The ommsblent and Infamme Hus' scenes. I hoped to get a nearer view of band' Baron, and looking over saw the three â€". crossesâ€"with Baron and the two with him â€"waiting to raise the curtain till my hero, the man I had almost deified, had finished his cigar. No more grotesque si lit can be imaginedâ€"the three in flesh-co cured silk tights, wound about the loins with linen, the Christ painted to look the sorrowing pained martyr upon the crossâ€"smoking a sag-.2: ! I returned to the box again. Baron was a man rifts." all, and u very human one.’ We often pity poor women, who havcbcon unfortunate cuou h to of: pretentious self sufficient, perfect v {on tlcss, and intoler- ably fault tinding,husbnnds. Mock, cowcd. disheartened, timid, weary creatures they are, who cannot call their souls their own, and could not be more miserable if they had been bought with money, and were literally the merchantablo property of their lords and masters. And the wretched fol- lows of husbands, who thus manage to put as much misery into the lives of their down notifier.- term"... is madness ,noisible to Imagine, what are they? the most ordinary, and most coutcinptiblc of the sons of men, who are engaged in an everlasting dint of self worship, and are continually fancying what privileged women their wives are. to have such men as they to nagg them. It docs not follow at all that they should be drunken. 0n the contrary, they are pleased to iarade their sobriety, before all comers. or is it necessary that they should know much. 0n the contrary, thcyaro often asintolcrably ignorant clodsns the sun shines upon. Nor are we to look for these social tyrants among the unfortu- nato and unsuccessful, whose tempers have been soured, by failure and disappointment. Not at all. It is often their very prosperity that makes them the abominable brutca, they so generally are, to those who cannot resist them. And so cautious and complais- ant, to those who could easily “ lay thorn " out with a well aimed blow, straightfrom the shoulder. Their ono grand characteristic is, that they are never wrong, and that their wives,poorcrcaturcs,arc ncvcrright. Thcfood is never properly cooked, the children are never rightly attended to, the servants nccd continual “hiowings up,"landin ullcompanics and in all circumstances the wives are do- clarcd to be “fools,” whilc astonishment is chronic about their not knowin bcttcr. Even before people they will give directions as to how the tea is to be poured, will glowcr and gloom, and look as if they were the most unfortunate of earth's pilgrims, and manago vcry speedily to get all to give them a wide berth. Their servants, if they have any, are continually leaving them, and, of course, it is the stupidity and want of man- agcmcut of their poor wives, that lies at the bottom of this, and every other unpleasant? ness, though every body but themselves, knows that it is their own insolcnt and un- mannered rutlisnism that makes all the mis- chief. They are surrounded, as they fancy, by rogues and fools, and are the only honest and capable persons in the community. They have n diseased love for telling how they “ wontfor people," nndi'ntimato vcryclcarly, by their own version even, that they owe a great dcal to the good nature and contempt of their neighbours, or they would have been half murdered long ago. Those who can, get away from them as from the plague, but those poor wrote-hes of wives, alas for them! they are bound unfortunately to what are a great deal worse than dead bodies, and have to endure slow continued and unmea- tionable tortures, compared with which crucifixion would be paradise. Do we ex- uggcratc? lixaggcrate ! manya poor broken hearted drndge as she reads those lines will say with the Queen of Sheba, but in a very different. mood from the southern queen, “One half has not been told." What is to be done with such retty domestic tyrants! It is scarcely possible to say. They are per- fectly unapproschable by reason, and shame they cannot feel. if the would only knock their victims on the bear and be done with them, there would be some sense and some pity, and there would then also some chanceofgcttingthcmsolvcshaugcd,bu asitis Can any of our readers suggest a remedy! r A New Safety Sail Bbdfk- T o the Editor of the Scientific American : “ Don't trust yourself in that craft 3 you’ll be overboard sure." Such was the warning of a professional boatman at the barge oflico on the Battery, as I stepped upon a frail boat on a “fresh” afternoon. I think I know something of boats myself, and but that I know this one to be provided with means intended to overcome the very danger against which the honest boatman warned me, I should have more than hesitated. But the pursuit of science must be deterred by no dangers, and, moreover, my pursuit in this instance was in behalf of the whole world, as represented by the Scientific Ameri- can. The Jane was an especially dangerous looking craft, 18 or 20 feet long, whose bot- tom and deck formed the sharp V-shapcd edge which proclaim an entire want of hear- ing power, while her immense sails, main and jib, were ample for a boat of twice her dimensions. Her captain was a New Zeal~ under, whose motions were the reverse of safety-ins iring. My own conception of the care use ful under the existing circum' stances had no place with him, and, but for entire faith in my ability to swim, I should never have ventured. As the June shot beyond the pier head, her huge sails were struck by a blast more than sufficient for instant destruction. In- voluntarin I made ready for an impromptu bath, and the bostman tauntingl called out, “What'd I tell yo?" but on}; the mast yielded. The boat came to her bearings and moved on as steadily as though impelled b the mildcst chbyr. Tho triumph was a - ready complete; but more was to come. Presently we were in a large scaway, and, with our good speed, a large inflow of sea water over the low and sharp how was a matter of course. In that, also, I was a ceany disappointed. The boat, instead officarryiug the wei ht of the wind and being thus forced throng the sea. rose to it and she glided easily aim. Again it was the mast that yieldedâ€"yielded to the motion of the boat as easily as before it yielded to the force of the blast. The surplus force of wind, instead of racking the boat and mak- ing misery for her passengers, was aim ily “spilled” over the top of the sail. ’ he motion was free from the thumps and jars usual under the same circumstances. How all this was accomplished may be difficult of explanation without the aid of an engraving. Instead of being "stepped" in the usual way. the mast was held in a rock- ing shaft at the deck, and to the keel, on either side, aprin were attached, having their opposite cn secured under the deck. Thus the mast, in the absence of pressure, remained upright, but under pressure yield- ed on either side. The amount of prururc ueedful to compel this yielding was regulat- ed by nuts and screw on a guide rod inside the springs. A second pair of springs, placed his 'tudinally under the deck, vverc connected iy pull a with the shrouds, and these aided to ati en the mast while they yielded to its movements under pressure. For pleasure boats, this spring mast is a rest addition. It not only insures safety, utgives an ease of motion which cannot but prove especially delightful to those who are timid upon the water. More than this, it permits an unvarying course for the beat, and thus avoids the checks and delays in- separable from “failing,” as also the neces- sity of unusual skill and care in the manage- ment of even a " crank" veaael in a " liowy" wind. M. 8. ll. New York, October, 1350. [The invention, a practical trial of which is above described, is that of Mr. John McLeod. Hill’s Pavilion, Flushing, N. Y. A patent has been allowed. lt appears to a really valuable and practical improve- mentâ€"Eds. Scientific American.) 9...”...â€" Tirrzsa lrisliincn, who had dug a ditch for 84, Were units at a loss to know how to divide the sy "aqually." But one of the number gone to school, and reached dis vision in the arithmetic, so it was left to him. He did it at once, saying : ” It's sisy enough. Share, there's two for you two, and two for me, too." The two received their portion with a greatly increased re- spect for the advantage which learning p'vea to a man. Tu: Crown Prince of Austria during the late military manoeuvres in P ' repeab edly expressed to several high 0 er: his admiration of the German away. It was he said, the first in the world. no miles, however, that in theAustrisn army cease- Twrx street, at Piper City, 111., was so less care and had . t about such namedbecauaesixpainoftwiaswereborn achangeaaui twell tittotakea in it within slew years. place at the a: e of the host. thur l . ‘ l “ . :Countess von Wrangrl. died lately in run. 5 lain, after having celebrated her diamond .g g, “ ivredding. l , MR llamas; the Banana millionaire, is ‘ said to have becomu morass and auspicious, 5 ‘ so many adventurers and impellers having ' \ Q noticed on him that he has lost faith in In most 'clsel‘.‘ a... i: .4 s;